Daniel Wiessner

A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump's nomination of acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to fill the role permanently, paving the way for a confirmation vote by the full Senate.

The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination moved to scrap a requirement that employers annually submit data on the race and sex of their workers, which since its adoption in the 1960s has been a cornerstone of civil rights enforcement.

Amazon's Whole Foods did not violate U.S. labor law by prohibiting employees from wearing clothing and accessories that said "Black Lives Matter" or "BLM," the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.

A group of U.S. federal employees filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging a ​ban by President Donald Trump's administration on health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for government ‌workers.

By Daniel Wiessner Aug 4 (Reuters) - OpenAI and a subsidiary will pay $3.2 million to settle U.S. government claims that they favored foreign

The manager of a Starbucks in Seattle did not violate federal labor law by telling an employee from a unionized store that she may have been barred ​from picking up shifts at the company's non-union locations, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ruled for the third time that the U.S. Department ​of Veterans Affairs cannot terminate a union contract covering 320,000 employees, in another blow to the Trump administration's efforts to strip ‌federal workers of collective bargaining rights.

Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's claims that the manager of a retail store made antisemitic comments and denied ​a Jewish longtime employee's requests for time off before firing him.

Planned Parenthood will have to defend against a $1.8 billion Medicaid fraud lawsuit by Texas that the organization says could force it to shut down its operations in the state after a U.S. appeals court rejected its bid to escape the ​case on immunity grounds.

By Daniel Wiessner Aug 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination has dropped a lawsuit seeking to